Clockwork Angel

In a karaoke bar somewhere in Tokyo, the five friends were having some fun after a day of hard work; Kyo “singing”, more like making fun of, Vanilla by Gackt. Everyone was having a great time.
The door of their private room opened slowly and a responsible of the bar asked:

“Could you sing a little lower, please? We can hear your voice in the whole bar. Please.”

Kyo looked to the small guy and shruged:

“Yeah… sure… whatever.”

When the guy left them alone again, they all bursted out laughing. Then Kyo continued to sing, but soon he got tired of that song. He gave the mic to Die and almost forced him to get up and sing Sweet Emotion by Aikawa Nanase. After making Die go through that, he left the room:

“I’m gonna get some chocolate, does anyone wants?” - he asked before leaving.

“Go get your chocolate and come back quickly, Die sucks at singing!” - Shinya replied.

Kyo smiled and left, closing the door behind him. He walked to the bar room, but there was no chocolate, so, he just decided to use one of the machines around. While he was putting the coins in it, three men, apparently normal, approached him and stopped: one behind him and the others, one by each side. Kyo stopped his moves and, without moving his head, he rolled his eyeballs to each side and then continued to insert the coins.

“We have another thing up… we need you.” - one of the guys spoke.

Kyo looked everywhere and then he looked down and pressed a button of the machine:

“Another thing up?” - Kyo asked, not even caring for the answer. He sighed. - “When?”

“Tomorrow, the same place, at 7 pm.” - The guy behind him spoke.

Kyo closed his eyes, sighed again and muttered what appeared to be a ‘yes’. He looked up again, the three men were gone. The chocolate fell, he picked it and gone to the earlier room he was.


Motions stopped when he entered and sat quietly on the couch, looking to the chocolate in his hands. Chocolate would usually make him feel happy, but not now. The other four guys looked silently to him. when he finally came to earth, he snapped:

“What?! Go on Toshiya… go back to you singing little thingy, I want to hear.” - Kyo said.

“Oh… but they don’t want to hear me, they want to hear you! Come on.” - Toshiya said.

Kyo looked to his hands again and shook his head, throwing the chocolate to the little table in front of him. He leaned back on the couch and smiled to Toshiya:

“Nah… I don’t want to sing right now… I want to hear you.” - he looked to the others too - “Each one of you… I want to hear you!” - and he laughed.

Die noticed something pass through his best friend’s eyes, something he could call despair or sickness, but, when the vocalist streched himself on the couch, Die relaxed. Everyone was tired, of course!

“Ah Kyo! I really don’t appreciate when you want to make us the singers!” - Kaoru pouted.

“Well… shut up and deal with it.” - Kyo returned.

The rest of the night, while they were in the bar, was cool and ok. They had the fun they wanted… maybe a bit more ‘cause hearing themselves singing and not the vocalist was really a reason to laugh out loud and burst off!
But… when the warumono didn’t want to sing, the other Dir en Grey members knew something was not ok. Anyway, they were already used to these sudden changes of the little vocalist’s spirit.